An LRC regular Finlay, completed his 10th Parkrun at Cramond last week with a PB of 28 mins 9 secs. Go Finlay! 🏃‍♂️🥇

Fantastic to see @DrAzizSheikh and Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)'s covid vaccination paper in the Lancet today (shorturl.at/qtvx3); the first time data has been linked across the whole population of ~60m adults in all four UK nations. What an opportunity for future research.....

Generation Scotland Director Prof Cathie Sudlow spoke about this on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, highlighting the importance of linking medical records for research.

A paper published recently in British Journal of Cancer by Edinburgh Cancer Research Institute of Genetics and Cancer researchers provides first comprehensive molecular picture of ovarian carcinosarcoma! Read a lay audience summary on our website👇: ed.ac.uk/cancer-centre/…

Need expert guidance on how to analyse your Oxford Nanopore or PacBio long-read data? Join us online on the 4-7 March for our Intro to Long-Read training course: genomics.ed.ac.uk/services/intro… #Bioinformatics #DataScience #DNA #NGS #Genomics #Training

OHGE Newsletter 2 - January 2024 In this issue - announcing the OHGE Community Meeting, as well as news, events, vacancies and publications from the genomics community at The University of Edinburgh Read more here: mailings.ed.ac.uk/2MP1-1ZOLB-32/…

Our volunteers have helped very important research looking at how our genes and environment impact our health!🧬💙 To help with more research like this, join our volunteer community at gen.scot👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬

🩺PhD opportunities for MBChB or BDS students🩺 The TRACC Programme is recruiting medical or dental students looking to gain top quality research training as well as securing clinical qualification with University of Glasgow or The University of Edinburgh 👉Find out more: crukscotlandcentre.ac.uk/training/tracc…

Next monday is 4 hours of preliminary grant reviews - a necessary but intense part of being a scientist who goes through peer review is being the reviewer. As ever, I am rather amazed by scientists who make simple mistakes in their proposals. My thoughts for a good proposal:

Interesting presentation by Christelle Johnson from Personalis on MRD detection for cancer management

Lucky to enjoy dinner with the terrific Dennis Lo at the excellent ⁦CNAPS 2024⁩ liquid biopsy meeting in Graz this week.

One Health Genomics Edinburgh brings together The University of Edinburgh genomics researchers working across humans, animals, plants and ecosystems for sustainable planetary health. Watch the video below to find out more: #onehealth #genomics #edinburgh #planetaryhealth

A great meeting, showcasing the strong expertise in genomics at the University of Edinburgh! #Genomics #OneHealth #Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics and Cancer The Roslin Institute Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh

One of our non-executive directors, Professor Patrick Maxwell, has received a CBE in the King's Honours list yesterday. Congratulations to Professor Maxwell and thank you for all you do for CUH! #CUHProud Cambridge University

Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Weber who has been awarded a CBE for services to Global Medical Science.🎉 Professor Weber has been working for over 40 years looking after and researching treatments for patients with HIV and AIDS. 👉imperial.ac.uk/news/254175/ki…

Congratulations to Prof Sharon Peacock CBE FMedSci, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology Cambridge University and ED & Chair of COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium on being awarded an honorary degree by University of Dundee today 👏 Read Prof Peacock's Fellow profile 👇 ow.ly/Pe7v50SkNWs

Dundee Dental School UoD Medicine Our honorary graduate for this ceremony holds a special connection to the School of Medicine - we're honouring Professor Andrew Morris CBE, former Dean of UoD Medicine.

New Science Director at Edinburgh Cancer Research ed.ac.uk/cancer-centre/… Edinburgh Cancer Research Institute of Genetics and Cancer

Many congratulations to our Director Owen Sansom 🏳️‍🌈 for being elected to the EMBO Membership in their 60th anniversary year! nmgn.mrc.ukri.org/news/our-direc…

Today we are publishing evidence from our Institutes to show the impact of changes to the UK immigration system on cancer research. We call on the new UK Government to reduce costs and review the system so it works for research - to meet their ambitions for health and growth.